Example sentences of "about [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was just about to sink into a state of total collapse when Tom cried : |
| 2 | Rachaela felt a bitter pity for her daughter , this blow about to fall like an axe . |
| 3 | I 'll get pictures of Mrs. just about to fall in the sea or something |
| 4 | I 'm about to invest in a brand new , superduper , anti-obsolescence computer and I feel as confident as if I were shopping for a pair of skis . |
| 5 | But it is not about to flower into a world directorate with its own army . |
| 6 | I am about to retire to the breakfast parlour with Mr Beckenham and Miss Merchiston . |
| 7 | She turned away and was about to swing into the jeep when he strode forward and barred her way with the racket across the open doorway . |
| 8 | What the pair of county ladies thought of its mid-thigh hemline Harry could not imagine , but he for one was not about to object to the brush of her black-stockinged knees against his drab-trousered legs . |
| 9 | As Flavia was about to trot down the drive she told herself , The world is not full of bugbears . |
| 10 | The boys were about to go into the building again after their first successful looting when suddenly somebody shouted : ‘ I Tedeschi , i Tedeschi arrivano ! ’ |
| 11 | Right , well I suppose the big sporting story of the evening has to be the boxing ; George Forman , who 's forty-one is about to go into the ring in er London 's Docklands arena . |
| 12 | He really looked so absurdly young and guileless , so like a starry-eyed subaltern about to go over the top into the machine-guns of the Somme , that Maxim almost answered . |
| 13 | Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit . |
| 14 | ‘ What height is this table ? ’ he said suddenly , just as I was about to go to the breadbin for a slice to wipe my plate with . |
| 15 | If a person were to announce to a policeman that he was about to go to the house of his sworn enemy and beat the living daylights out of him , it would not make sense if the law were that the policeman had to follow the suspect to the locus in quo and only then arrest him . |
| 16 | I arrived at Salisbury Cathedral , just as the bride was about to go up the aisle . |
| 17 | Perhaps a common expression of this are the preparations people undertake when they are about to go on a trip . |
| 18 | THE BRITISH government may be about to go on a spending spree — buying up stocks of rare metals for use by industry if stocks run short . |
| 19 | Also about to go on a journey of self-discovery which must bring me back to my beginnings . |
| 20 | It was about sex — not about sexual politics — but another show was about to go on the road , and Oz had got there first . |
| 21 | ‘ I was about to go for a turn around the village , ’ said Hope , switching the subject , as he thought , adroitly . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , if people believe that the stock market is about to go through a period of ‘ boom ’ with share prices going up rapidly , they will switch some of their wealth into stocks and shares . |
| 23 | A special accolade for Stefan , that prodigy of a man who virtually single-handed got everything together on time , and then , just as he was about to go through the orchestra door he saw Madge Grimsilk , the headdress of a rat under her arm , hurrying up to the wings . |
| 24 | He looked around and saw Pete about to go out the door . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 26 | She was about to go round the back when the casement on the ground floor creaked open and an ample hand appeared followed by a full face , framed by thick straight grey hair , secured with a slide . |
| 27 | In general the move towards wage supplementation in the rural South and East enabled the old Poor Law just about to cope with the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of unprecedentedly high bread prices , during which some years can only be described as desperate . |
| 28 | She sat down and was about to indulge in a fit of angry tears when the phone rang . |
| 29 | She cleared her throat nervously and was just about to launch into a business like explanation when he said suddenly , ‘ So what 's with the altered image ? ’ |
| 30 | So are restrictions about to tighten like a drysuit seal around our necks ? |